PokerStars EPT London Main Event -- Day 2Chip Leaders Come to Fore as Main Event Approaches Money Bubble |
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On day 2 of the PokerStars.com European Poker Tour London main event, 318 players (a combination of both day 1A and 1B’s survivors) turned out for quite a tough day on the felt. With a field including the likes of Chris Ferguson, Erik Seidel, Annette Obrestad, and Jeffrey Lisandro, the short stacks had to pull out all the stops to survive, and in the end, so did a lot of the big stacks.
Many players such as Michael Greco and Arnaud Mattern were on the up and up throughout the day, but before end of play their stacks were not nearly as healthy as before.
Three players who had a good day however were Teddy Sheringham, Tommy Vedes, and Kevin Schaffel. Kevin Schaffel had just 15,000 in chips mid-session and in 20-minutes he improved that to 195,000. First, he doubled up with pocket eights versus Theo Tran’s K-J. Then, his pocket aces held up against Chris Ferguson’s pocket queens.
Former footballer Teddy Sheringham struck gold when he crippled Joel Nordkvist and sent Christian Harder to the rail in a hand where Harder was all in preflop with pocket eights, and the other two got it in on the turn.
Sheringham’s J
10 made a straight on the river of a board showing A
Q
9
7 K while Nordkvist’s K Q was crippled and so was his chip stack. Sheringham moved up to 390,000 and didn’t budge too far from there before end of play. However, as soon as we get official chip counts, so will you.
Tommy Vedes appeared from nowhere as the day 2 chip leader with 585,000, and he along with 110 others will return tomorrow to play that usually slow and painful few hands before the bubble bursts. Only 104 players will make the money and Card Player will be there for every twist and turn of the event as it finds its way towards a champion. Whoever it is will go home from London £850,000 ($1,354,042) richer.
There were many casualties throughout the day. Here are just a few of them:
Michael Tureniac busted when his set of jacks was beaten by Annette Obrestad’s jack-high straight.
After losing most of his stack with pocket eights to pocket nines, Jesper Hougaard was left with just under 10,000 in chips.
He got the rest of them in preflop with KJ against the big blinds reluctant call with 108. The board ran out eight high and Hougaard was eliminated from the tournament.
Peter Hedlund ran A-10 into A-Q and Chris Moorman ran pocket deuces into pocket aces. Neither got help and both finished just outside of the money.
Other notable eliminations included Roland de Wolfe, Scott Fischman, Yevgeniy Timoshenko, David Williams, Barry Shulman, Huck Seed, and Eric Seidel.
Take a look at the top ten stacks below:
| Name | Country | Status | Chips |
| Tommy Vedes | USA | 585,000 | |
| Rui Milhomens | Portugal | 488,000 | |
| Jean Montury | France | 485,500 | |
| Harri Suni | Finland | 423,000 | |
| Alex Wice | Canada | 420,500 | |
| Jeffery Lisandro | Italy | 414,000 | |
| Antonio Buonanno | Italy | 407,500 | |
| Kevin Schaffel | USA | PokerStars sponsored player | 406,500 |
| Peter Eastgate | Denmark | Team PokerStars PRO Nordics | 393,500 |
| Max Heinzelmann | Germany | 392,000 |
Day 3 will kick off tomorrow at noon (local time) and by the end of play we should have 24 players remaining. Join the Card Player live reporting team then to get in on all the action. In the meantime, take a look at this PokerStars TV snippet all about day 2 and its initial field:
Watch EPT 6 London Day 2: Big field, big names, big cash on PokerStars.tv**
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